Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right after the elections, the L.D.P. announced that it would select a new leader by ballot rather than through the kind of back-room parleying that brought Noboru Takeshita and Sousuke Uno to power. While party members nominated three candidates, senior power brokers reverted to habit and backed Kaifu, a faceless and seemingly malleable Diet member, as Prime Minister...
...Lipscomb: "It's a scheme to preserve Anglo business and political power." He and others contend that Strauss, who was twice elected with heavy black and Hispanic support, sold out to the Anglo establishment and then conspired to keep a minority proposal for all single-member districts off the ballot...
...this, there's a pretty good chance the courts will do it for us." In fact, a federal trial set for September seems to guarantee a prolonged period of discord. Two unsuccessful black office seekers are demanding exactly what minority activists could not get on the ballot: a system of all single-member districts...
Jaruzelski was replaced by outgoing Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski, who was elected by a Central Committee secret ballot, 171 to 41. In his acceptance speech, Rakowski proposed an unspecified reshuffling of the party's top leadership and declared, "I believe I will have the support of all party members who drew conclusions from the failure of the last elections. I would like to change this unfavorable situation into a favorable...
...added that his likely candidacy for treasurer and the ballot campaign naturally go together, particularly if Crane seeks another term. "I can very easily say that the system is wrong for allowing the treasurer to stay in that long," Malone said...